I misattributed an image in the "Seminal Image" series, that's cause why.

A visitor to this here blog, David Boswell, took one glance at Seminal Image #90, instantly concluded that it was not from Sternberg's "The Docks of New York" (1928) and left a comment stating such. When I read it, I said, almost out loud "Wrong-o, bud!! I've seen that there film. I oughta know where it's from, cause I'm Super Cinephile!" So I went back to the Czech website where I got the still and found, to my considerable displeasure, that . . . ho-leeee . . . it was indeed a still from Mauritz Stiller's "Street of Sin" (1928)

I have three excuses I can employ here to hopefully mitigate my error, but there's no point. They're each one unsurpassingly lame ("I saw the film so LONG ago!!"). In short, I fucked up royally and pawned hastily collected goods off on y'all as something they weren't. I promise to be more careful and avoid such errors in future. That is all I can do to demonstrate how unutterably chastened I am by this incident.

Okay, that last sentence was overdoing it. But I do apologize to our visitors all the same.

Of course . . . I'm not a petty and vindictive sort who wishes to pont fingers where they shouldn't be pointed . . . but I'd like to know where my Partner in Blogging was during all of this.

Our Statement of Principle

“And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs - that song, endlessly reincarnated - born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."-- Nick Tosches